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and for him on whose behalf the day
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is kept. And when
the morning is come, she shall go unto her house, she and
those that came b with her, and shall do charity unto the
widows. And none of the virgins shall suffer loss on her
account, but she shall send unto them what is needful after
the widows, that the blessing of the Lord may rest upon
her whole house, for that she hath cared for the souls of
the virgins without offence and hath walked with them in
their eating and their abstinence, d
( 1OO). e When/ a man goeth to rest (i.e. dieth), they
shall not make lamentation for him, as the strange, accursed g
nations 7 and especially as those that have not kept their
mouths pure from the names of idols. And if the dead were
beloved,* or an only son, his people shall not despair by Rf. 120
reason of grief of heart; but the priests shall chant and read
s
unto them, until the hour when the dead is borne (forth),
while they each hour pray, that comfort may be given to
the sorrow of their hearts, lest sorrow increase upon them
and they die. If the dead man be poor, the church shall
care for him and if he have no kinsman, the church shall
be his heir. On the seventh day of his mourning the priests
shall go unto his friends that be in the church and shall
visit them.
( 1O1). / No one of the nuns shall go
unto her house
for to keep the vigil of a feast, whether dead or alive;
rather the mother and other two old women shall comfort
b R. >
. d M. their abstinence and their eating.
e R. Contents: Of such of the believers as go to rest.
/ M. And when. g M. despised.
/ R. Contents: Of a nun of whom a kinsman dieth.
6 Viz. the day of judgment (j *^ep rye 3txetto<rvvw) ; cf. KRQ. 169, 17;
also Constit. Apost. VIII, 42 with Cotelier s comments,
Rohde Psyche**- I,
ff. 232 etc.
"Eflvjj. Cf. Synhados^ ed. Braun, 174 und KRQ. 191, 15.
8 Cf. KRQ. 191, 15.
Vansleb. Hist. noff.
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